What are your thoughts and review on Lightbox.com Diamond?

[JG1994]

I know people who've bought them then sent them off to jewellers to be re-set in gold settings instead. So far, I haven't heard any complaints from them.

As for what I think of lab diamonds? I prefer them over the heavy pollution that mining contributes. And because I know that ethically mined certificates can be falsified and/or bought. It's not just the mining that's harmful - a lot of diamond cutters in mining countries suffer from respiratory issues later in life after a lifetime of cutting diamonds with no safety or ethical oversight. And that's one of the lines I choose to draw personally as a consumer (also stubborn refusal to fall for DeBeers' advertising).

Lab diamonds are also chemically identical to diamonds, that's why they HAVE to be marked as lab diamonds by the labs that produce them - including lightbox; because otherwise, there's no way of telling a mined or lab diamond apart strictly on the stone and chemical properties themselves. They are NOT simulants as implied by other posters - eg. Moissanite, CZ etc.

Moissanites are not simulants. Moissanites are the crystal gemstone of silicon carbide and are their own unique gemstone, not a fake diamond.

 

[eunaddict]

Moissanites are not simulants. Moissanites are the crystal gemstone of silicon carbide and are their own unique gemstone, not a fake diamond.

Some people on a wedding forum refer to them as simulants - I don't, I usually defend moissanite use in engagement rings.

That said, I was trying to differentiate lab diamonds as diamonds from gemstones that look like diamonds and perhaps "simulants" was the wrong word to use, but that was the intent.

 

[eunaddict]

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